Do you still own a landline phone?

By Mike in Politcs Plus

After 40 years of being a faithful customer of Ma Bell, my wife and I will cut the land line cord and rely on our cell phones. It's going to seem odd not having a listing in the White Pages. ...

Is altruism eveil?

By Mike in Politcs Plus

I couldn't figure out why the Republican Party would risk alienating seniors just before the 2012 elections. The house republicans have adopted the Paul Ryan budget proposal which will eliminate Medicare and Medicaid as we know it. Congressman Paul Ryan ...

Ideological lines are being drawn in the sand

By Mike in Politcs Plus

The only thing certain is that something has to give the because the ideological lines have been drawn in the sand. The president said Medicare will not be privatized on his watch and that the Bush tax cuts will be ...

The devil is in the details

By Mike in Politcs Plus

We are in phase one of three congressional battles that are looming this year. Phase one is to fund the government of the next six months, phase two will be the 2012 budget, and the most important one will be ...

Why Libya?

By Mike in Politcs Plus

For those are you who hoped to hear the new Obama Doctrine; you were disappointed after hearing President Obama's speech last night. The skeptics were not persuaded, the confused remained confused but I came away with a better understanding but ...

It's about time

By Mike in Politcs Plus

I could hardly believe that I actually heard republican Representative Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland saying that the Libyan war costs might be as much as one billion dollars. Finally, the speaker of the house John Boehner asked "What's the Libya ...

Mission creep?

By Mike in Politcs Plus

The term" mission creep” is an expansion of emission beyond its original goals. The Washington Post first used this term in 1993 to describe the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia. Several pundits used this term to describe our bombing of ...

We still have corporal punishment in our schools?

By Mike in Politcs Plus

I was stunned to hear that we still have corporal punishment in our public schools. This morning's episode of “Morning Joe" had a guest named Marc Ecko, who revealed that recent figures from the federal Department of Education say that ...

The improbable is not impossible

By Mike in Politcs Plus

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? I’m not ready apply for a nuclear energy degree but I am not as dumb about nuclear power as I was a couple weeks ago. Every night I'm glued to ...

A bird's-eye view

By Mike in Politcs Plus

It's from my imagined view seen from high in the air that I see my country losing focus and just reacting to circumstances on ideological grounds. Some governor's are using their budget shortfalls to settle old scores and are eliminating ...